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15
Sep
Deborah Rugg's Top YEE Tips: The 12 secret Ps of success

Deborah Rugg's Top YEE Tips: The 12 secret Ps of success

Deborah is a highly successful, dynamic and influential evaluation professional with boundless energy that inspires wherever she goes - including
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11
Sep
Candice Morkel's Top YEE Tips

Candice Morkel's Top YEE Tips

My top tips are a bit different from those you have been reading about lately in this series. They'
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08
Sep
Evaluation Maturity Models

Evaluation Maturity Models

Have you ever worked with a Research Maturity Model? Or an Evaluation Maturity Model? A 'maturity model' with
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06
Sep
Julian Barr's Top YEE Tips

Julian Barr's Top YEE Tips

Others in this series will, I trust, give you useful technical tips on evaluation designs, methods, data collection and analytical
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04
Sep
The Russons' Top YEE Tips

The Russons' Top YEE Tips

Top Tip 1. Do not compromise your standards of integrity. Janis Joplin is famously quoted as saying, "Don'
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30
Aug
Michael Patton's one Big YEE Tip

Michael Patton's one Big YEE Tip

There is a lot to learn as a Young and Emerging Evaluator. You need to know methodological alternatives. You need
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28
Aug
Made in Africa Evaluation 6. A NICE research agenda for evaluation

Made in Africa Evaluation 6. A NICE research agenda for evaluation

In this short series of posts about the NICE Framework I argue for more intensive and creative research and innovation
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25
Aug
Made in Africa Evaluation 5. Applying the NICE Framework

Made in Africa Evaluation 5. Applying the NICE Framework

We still have many opportunities to re-imagine evaluation and to combine this with the best evaluation knowledge we already have
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23
Aug
Made in Africa Evaluation 4. The NICE Framework

Made in Africa Evaluation 4. The NICE Framework

It is in the West, primarily in the US, where systematic evaluation as we practice it today originated sometime in
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21
Aug
Made in Africa Evaluation 3. Africa-led evaluation

Made in Africa Evaluation 3. Africa-led evaluation

We need "Evaluation with African Characteristics" - in how we conceptualise evaluation and in how we lead and
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